Financial Institutions Seminars 2009-10
08/01/10 Lorenzo Isla
Head of Credit Derivatives, BBVA
Lorenzo Isla is responsible for the Structured Credit and Credit Derivatives business at BBVA. Prior to this he ran the CDO/structured credit research and strategy efforts at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers Int. in London from 2001 to 2007. He was a lecturer at Harvard University from 1996 to 2001 and worked for PanAgora AM, the Boston based hedge fund. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and completed his graduate studies in Financial Economics at Harvard University.
15/01/10 Drago Indjic
Quantitative Investment Manager and Technologist Investment Manager, Blue White Alternative Investments; Project Manager, Hedge Fund Centre (London Business School)
Drago Indjic's major projects in 2009 included continuing using the best industry software platform for cleaning hedge fund data bases at London Business School and participation in algorithmic trading “arms race."
19/02/10 Antoni Sureda
Credit Risk Modeler, la Caixa
Antoni Sureda has held positions at Banc Sabadell and the European Investment Bank. He earned his PhD in Finance at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he taught several finance courses. His main research interests are financial regulation, corporate control, risk management, asset pricing, and asset management.
26/02/10 David Murano
Director Market & ALM Risk Management, la Caixa
Before coming to la Caixa, David Murano was director of Global Risk Management & Controller at the Caixa d'Enginyers. He also worked as a project manager at Newton Investment Management. He is the regional director of GARP.
07/05/10 Rasa Karapandza
Assistant Professor of Finance, European Business School (EBS)
Rasa Karapandza holds a PhD from the UPF. During his PhD studies he was a Visiting Sholar at HAAS School of Business at University of California Berkeley and at the Economics Department of New York University. Rasa's research focuses on asset pricing, real estate finance, applied game theory and computational finance. His work has been published in "Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics" and "Physica A".
About Financial Institutions Seminars
In our Financial Institutions Seminar series we bring top professionals from the finance industry to share their knowledge and insights with small groups of students, providing a practical counterpoint to the classroom experience. These seminars have proven popular with students as they provide valuable contact with the real world of finance as well as the opportunity to get to know financial professionals in a friendly, relaxed environment.
Objectives:
The Financial Institutions Seminars enable students to:
- Complement their course training with a more practical approach to finance problems
- Familiarize themselves with the type of tasks they will have to perform when entering the industry
- Establish contacts that may be useful when they enter the job market
Organization:
Student attendance is mandatory. Seminars typically last two hours and consist of two parts. In the first part the speaker covers aspects related to the internal organization of his division and the main tasks performed by senior and junior members of the division. In the second part the speaker focuses on one topic of interest in the current market environment. After the seminar students and speakers get together for a cocktail.
2008-09 Seminar Archive
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